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Known for some time now as "America's
greatest semi-active band," Fred Nicolaus and Daniel
Rossen’s Department of Eagles have been beguiling music
fans at slow and steady pace for just over four years.
After being unavailable for the better part of a year in North
America, we are happy to be reissuing the Brooklyn duo’s
debut album under the preferred European title of The Cold
Nose. This release features four additional bonus tracks culled
from the same sessions that produced the tracks on the original
album.
Originally released in 2003 on Isota Records and originally
titled The Whitey On The Moon UK LP (the title being an homage
to the band's former name), the album sounded like nothing
else at the time. No one had ever heard such distinctive,
experimental, beat-driven montages laid next to such exquisitely
structured pop songs before, all laced with playful and witty
undercurrents. Imagine the Radiohead, Randy Newman, Underworld,
and Ween accidentally booking the same studio time, maybe
due to some clerical error, and you get the idea.
Daniel Rossen, who sings most of the Department of Eagles’
songs and plays most of the stringed instruments on the album,
is currently one of the main songwriters and vocalists for
the highly acclaimed Warp Records act Grizzly Bear. He and
Fred have had the Department of Eagles on hiatus for a while
now, but, as always, are working on the follow-up to their
stellar debut.
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